Stories about "Language and literature"
Poet Gregory Orr to read
Friday, February 18, 2000 2:34 pm
Poet-memoirist Gregory Orr will read from a memoir about his troubled relationship with his father, supplementing his presentation with related family poems at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
Patel to discuss cultural significance of time at Bates
Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:53 pm
Geeta Patel, assistant professor of women's studies at Wellesley College, will discuss "Time Tallies Up: Millennium Stories" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
Award-winning poet to read at Bates
Monday, March 8, 1999 10:18 am
Bates alumna Jean Monahan '81 will read from her two books of poetry, Hands and Believe it or Not at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 21, in the Special Collections Room of Ladd Library. The public is invited to attend the Readings with Bates Authors presentation free of charge.
Bates alumna's novel climbs bestseller list
Thursday, March 4, 1999 3:54 pm
The groundhog may not have seen his shadow this year, but he couldn't avoid hearing the mid-winter buzz about Portland native and 1977 Bates College graduate Elizabeth Strout's first novel, "Amy and Isabelle" (Random House, 1998). The book has climbed into the top 30 best Selling novels listed by The New York Times, who called it "one of those rare, invigorating books that takes an apparently familiar world and peers into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place."
Poet Paul Muldoon to read at Bates
Thursday, March 4, 1999 3:12 pm
Poet Paul Muldoon will read from his works at Bates College March 18 at 8 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge. The reading is sponsored by the Bates College Department of English. The public is invited to attend without charge.
Bates prose students to read from their works
Wednesday, February 17, 1999 10:07 am
Prose students of Gary Lawless, instructor in English at Bates College, will read from their works at 3 p.m. Feb. 28, in the Special Collections Room of Ladd Library.
Robert Reddick to read at Bates
Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:03 am
Novelist Robert Reddick will read from his work in progress, titled The Labyrinth of Wind, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, in the Special Collections Room of Ladd Library. The public is invited to attend the Readings with Bates Authors presentation free of charge.
Poet Robert Chute to read at Bates
Monday, January 11, 1999 4:24 pm
Award-winning poet Robert Chute will read from Sweeping the Sky, works in progress about Russian women combat pilots of World War II, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, in the Special Collections room of Ladd Library. The public is invited to attend the Readings with Bates Authors presentation free of charge.
Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman to speak at Bates on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday, January 6, 1999 3:55 pm
Novelist John Edgar Wideman, two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball great Jackie Robinson, will speak at Bates College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as part of a two-day series of activities and workshops focused on Two Societies: A Focus on Class through the Lenses of Race and Gender. The public is invited to attend all events free of charge.
"Scattering the Ashes" author to read
Tuesday, January 5, 1999 12:37 pm
María del Carmen Boza, author of Scattering the Ashes, an account of the Cuban exile experience, will read selections from her acclaimed memoir at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, in the Special Collections room of Ladd Library. The public is invited to attend free of charge.